From to 1935 2020

Not long ago, the home-made incendiary bombs used by the Red Army to bomb the Shanxi-Sui Army were made by "rolling" the iron sheet produced there, adding the "soil gasoline" processed by the crude oil produced in the Yanchang Oilfield, and installing an explosive fuze. .This crude incendiary bomb is currently the most easily produced "weapon of mass destruction" by the Red Army.

For a good coal and iron base, it is best to have iron and coal locally. Yan’an has coal mines but no iron mines. It is not a suitable place to build a coal mine base. The iron ore currently used is shipped from other places or recycled scrap iron .The scale of that iron factory is very small - there is only one local blast furnace, one ladle, and one casting platform, which is simpler than the most backward strip steel factory in the 20s. "Okay, just a little bit.

But there are only eight such simple and crude ironworks in the entire Gansu-Shaanxi Soviet area.The two in Yan'an and Tianshui are newly built, and the rest are local warlords or "relics" from the former Qing Dynasty.The total ironmaking output of the eight iron factories is only more than 100 tons a day.

In the entire Gansu-Shaanxi Soviet area, the most suitable place for the coal and iron industry is Yulin - which is backed by Ordos, where there is coal and iron - there is a small blast furnace left by Jing Yuexiu, which is used for reprocessing in the iron factory here in Yan'an The raw materials are actually pig iron anchors shipped from there after refining.

Although Yulin is good, it is too close to the future anti-Japanese front line, and it is easily bombed by Japanese aircraft, so it cannot be "largely built".

Another place is Dingxi, where there is coal and a 300-million-ton iron mine—unfortunately, the location is too far away and the traffic is bad.

But the best place is in the Linxia area.

According to the data of later generations, 43 kinds of various mineral resources have been discovered in Linxia Prefecture, accounting for 25% of the total number of mineral resources discovered in the province.Mainly: 17 kinds of metal minerals (iron, manganese, chromium, copper, nickel, lead, zinc, tungsten, molybdenum, antimony, gold, silver, platinum, tantalum, niobium, beryllium, xenotime); 2 kinds of energy minerals (coal , peat); 24 kinds of non-metallic minerals (barite, serpentinite, boron, phosphorus, arsenic, salt, potassium feldspar, fluorite, dolomite, silica, refractory clay, granite, cement limestone, decorative marble rock, gypsum, talc, zeolite, wollastonite, calcite, basalt, diabase, brick clay, diorite, building sand).It is close to the Yellow River, far away from the front line, and there is no need to worry about future Japanese bombings.

After the Red Army captured the Linxia area in December last year, although the Muslim areas there were abandoned to the Tibetans who came down from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, they only gave up the land and not the mines.The several important mining areas given by Huang Ke were all guarded by heavy troops.

Huang Ke learned from Zeng Zhongsheng that after the Battle of Lanzhou, most of the captured Majia army prisoners were sent here to develop the mining area.Not only that, Deng Fa and Dai Jiying, who are currently carrying out anti-revolutionary work in Hedong, and Xia Xi, who has just arrived in Lanzhou, are now sending a large number of detected "dangerous elements" to the newly developed mine here In the mine.

The cultural conflicts in Linxia are not a problem at all, as long as there is no relentlessness and no "political correctness" interference.One of Huang Ke's happiest things is that he turned the Long March of the Second Red Army into an armed march. Xia Xi, the man who is most suitable to solve this problem, is not dead—Huang Ke decided that he would recommend it to Wu Hao again. , Let him stay here permanently, let him be in charge of the anti-revolutionary work in Hedong and Hexi, including the Qinghai area in the future.After killing Sheng Shicai in the future, he will be sent to Xinjiang to stay permanently.

Talent, if used in the wrong place, is a disaster, and used in the right place, it is called the elite, the vanguard.

Another shortcoming of the Linxia area is that it is too remote, and it is extremely inconvenient to travel by land.Fortunately, it is close to the Yellow River and has water transportation.Huang Ke has already ordered a batch of coal-fired boilers to be installed on ships abroad. Using the waterway of the Yellow River, the products produced can be easily transported to the front line.

"Linxia is a good place. In the future, it will be an important rear area for our military production. It must be cleaned up. Kill those who deserve to be killed. Don't be soft-handed. They are afraid of power and not virtuous. That's how those people should be dealt with!"

That's what Huang Ke said at the time, and someone listened to it.

That person is different from the chairman. The chairman's problem is that he can make big decisions, but he is always soft-hearted and believes that people can be reformed.But that person was the opposite. His verbal fear of "I'm late" can best explain who he is.

In fact, this person has never been soft-handed!He and Li Yunshi are perfect complements, as long as these two people don't sit in the wrong position, they are actually a perfect match made in heaven.

In the Yan'an area, the largest output is oil.

In the entire Yanchang area in history, during the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, the Yanchang Petroleum Plant produced a total of 3155 tons of crude oil. After processing, it produced 163.94 tons of gasoline, 1512.33 tons of kerosene, and 5760 boxes of candles. The output was very low.

The main factor affecting its production capacity is nothing more than a serious shortage of personnel, equipment, and technology.

However, the situation on this plane changed completely after the Red Army occupied the place for half a year.

With the mine information provided by Huang Ke and the mining experience and lessons of later generations, no matter whether it is digging a new well or expanding an old one, it is always accurate.With the help of newly imported equipment and the technology of Soviet experts, the oil production in the area has continued to increase.In particular, Huailinping, the most productive mine, was developed ahead of schedule, (historically produced more than 1943 tons in 1200), and with the equipment in place, it began to produce oil on a large scale in March. One month has not passed yet, and this well alone Just output 150 tons of oil.The entire Yanchang area is currently estimated to produce [-] tons of oil per month, and in the next year it will exceed the output of the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War in history, and this is just the beginning.

In addition, the imported oil refining equipment installed last month has started to operate. Compared with the serious waste of indigenous oil refining in history, the refining rate of professional equipment is much higher.At present, Yanchang Oil Factory can produce more than 30 tons of gasoline per month. With the rapid increase of oil production capacity, cars running in various parts of Gansu and Shanxi will gradually get rid of their heavy dependence on imported gasoline.Not long ago, during the Eastern Expedition, the Red Army used homemade incendiary bombs for the first time, and the fuel was processed products from the Yanchang Oil Factory.

The real easy-to-exploit high-yield oil fields in Northwest China are not in Yanchang but in Yumen, but it is still under the control of Ma Jiajun for the time being.It won't be a problem to produce [-] tons of oil per day, and the entire base area will be basically self-sufficient in terms of fuel.

But this fuel production capacity is still pitifully small compared with the Japanese.

As for the three-acid and two-alkali chemical industry, the Ganshan Soviet Area is currently in its infancy.

The largest saltpeter mine in China is in Xinjiang, Yuncheng Salt Lake in Shanxi is one of the world's three largest sodium sulfate inland salt lakes, and Baiyin, Gansu also produces saltpeter, and Huang Ke has already targeted Fan Xudong and Hou Debang's family property, so we can only do everything If it can be used, the acquisition of explosives in the future will be much easier than in history, but compared with the Japanese, there is still a huge gap.

Saltpeter mines in the Baiyin area have also been found, but it will take time and a lot of manpower to develop and transport them out.Also because of the tyranny of distance and traffic problems, the development and utilization here have become extremely inefficient.

"So it is very important to win most of Shanxi before the Anti-Japanese War and deploy there in advance!"

Although the Northwest is rich in resources, it is sparsely populated, and the tyranny of the distance makes the cost and difficulty of doing industry here rise sharply.In contrast, Shanxi is a resource-rich province with a unique advantage in population and resources. As long as it can control and defend this place, it will be the mainstay for the entire north to resist Japanese aggression in the future.

Before the Eastern Expedition, the chairman specially asked Wang Jiaxiang to go to the Soviet Union to meet Stalin, explaining the situation to him face to face and asking for as much assistance as possible.And after Huang Ke completed the zero-yuan purchase plan in Shanghai, he also rushed back to Yan'an as soon as possible. He also wanted to work with Elena to use his own abilities to give full play to this critical battle as much as possible. Role - Considering the important role of the two, in fact, the upper echelons of the Red Army are now increasingly opposed to the two going off in person and getting involved in dangerous front-line adventures.The so-called "good luck" in the past will eventually run out one day when you go up to the mountains and you will eventually meet a tiger.

Huang Ke also understands this, but the enemy facing China now is too powerful.Every bit of cost and every bit of profit has to be weighed.

"If we can explain everything to Stalin, China and the Soviet Union will truly unite and cooperate, and give full play to the advantages of our time-traversing historical prophets!"

When inspecting several newly built factories in Yan'an, Huang Ke sighed in his heart.Because human beings are narrow-minded, selfish, and do not trust each other, this step cannot be crossed.When he inspected several military and chemical departments in Yan'an, he wanted to avoid Soviet experts.

On March 27, as the first field airport in Luliang area was completed in Lishi, Huang Ke and Elena also flew to Lishi's former headquarters by plane to meet with the chairman.Apart from using their abilities to deliver some ammunition and bulky equipment to the front line, their other purpose was to ask Chairman Li for a new mission.

In Yan'an, Huang Ke received an urgent telegram from the northern intelligence agency: After learning from Yan Xishan that the Red Army also had aircraft, Chang Kaishen was shocked.At present, he is ordering the air force stationed in Guisui to transfer the planes to the Zhangjiakou area, and then he is ordering the air forces in Hangzhou and Nanjing, with more than a dozen Hawker II fighters in active service, to transfer to Zhangjiakou for centralized standby in the near future.

The related plane transfer plan and the location of the airport are clear to the comrades of the underground party - the reason is still related to Pan Hannian.In order to "save" costs, the Tianma Transportation Company established by Pan Hannian, under Song Ziliang's matchmaking, was incorporated into "Recruitment" by the Democratic Party government last month!

Now that they have a formal establishment in the military, the Nanjing Nationalist Government spends a sum of money to buy cars, pay employees, provide gasoline\parts, and then they are responsible for the transportation of military supplies.

In the past two months, Chang Kaishen has transferred a large number of central troops from various places to Hebei. The transfer of tens of thousands of troops is a big problem in logistics and transportation.Although there are railways to help, it is also inseparable from road assistance.

Although the military also has its own transport team, it is already very conscientious for those grandsons to spend one-tenth of their time working for the party and the country.In contrast, although the convoy formed by Pan Hannian took nearly two-thirds of his time doing private work for the Zhongtong, Juntong, and Kong Song, even if he only spent one-third of his time working for the party and the country, his "diligence" To such an extent, the various military ministries that cooperated with him were moved to tears, and everyone applauded.

The person who works most conscientiously for Chang Kaishen is the price of the "Underground Communist Party", that is, Chang Kaishen's deployment of troops in various places in Hebei, where the ammunition, food and socks are located, the Red Army is very clear.If necessary, Chairman Li Runshi can even give an order, and tomorrow there will be a shocking explosion somewhere in Chang Kaishen's ammunition warehouse.

Pan Hannian's motorcade called to report that Chang Kaishen was set up at Zhangjiakou's airport, and the security system was full of loopholes. In addition, he was currently undergoing plane transfers and frequent transportation.

What Pan Hannian meant was to set a time bomb and blow up the gasoline depot at the airport.Without gasoline, the planes that came over could not fly even if they wanted to, so the sky in Shanxi belonged to the Red Army.The time bomb in Pan Hannian's hand was naturally built by Huang Ke with his help. The specific method was to use acidic chemical corrosion to detonate.

However, after Huang Ke received Pan Hannian's telegram, he thought that he could use his own ability to go directly to the airport and steal all the planes.

The planes used by the Soviet Union to aid the Red Army were too old to be useful.Although with the "help" of Sheng Shicai, the total number of Air-5s has increased to 16, but in fact, the daily attendance rate is only 200%, that is, eight aircrafts, and after each attack, the ground support has to be maintained for half a day .According to the Soviet ground staff, the engines of these planes should have been replaced long ago. (Note: The engine life of the Soviet aircraft before World War II was extremely cheating, the I100 was only [-] hours, and the earlier ones were only more than [-] hours)

Before Huang Ke left Yan'an, what Yan'an was doing was that the Soviet technicians were trying to replace the six engines that Huang Ke obtained from Japan into the Air-5 aircraft, and one was completed before leaving, and the test flight After a while, it was very successful. The speed and bomb-carrying capacity of the new aircraft have greatly increased.So all the engines of the first batch of eight planes are being replaced at the moment—because the number of engines is insufficient, Huang Ke himself did it himself, and even dismantled two of the engines of the [-] warships in stock.

At that time, Huang Ke compared the aircraft of the same type sent by Sheng Shicai with the aircraft of the same type that the Red Army flew back from the Soviet Union, and found to his dismay that Sheng Shicai's support aircraft was "newer".

In Lishi, when Huang Ke met with the chairman, he was very dissatisfied when talking about this matter.

He cursed and said:

"From the experience of the Korean War, this kind of thing should be done by the Soviets who did the specific work, just like Blyuchel gave us bad guns. During the Korean War in history, the Soviets sold our tanks and agreed It's new, but in fact, the people in the Far Eastern Military Region have all secretly replaced it with garbage from World War II, from tanks to guns. Human tissues were even found in some tanks... Fuck, Good-hearted people who earnestly aid the third world countries as we later did, the whole world will be one family."

At that time, the chairman said: "Relying on mountains and mountains, relying on water to dry, so self-reliance is more important than anything else."

"That's right, so I came here this time to prepare for self-reliance to solve the quality problem of the aircraft!"

Huang Ke immediately hit the snake with the stick and mentioned his and Elena's plan to go to Chang Kaishen's house to steal the plane.

"Elena and I don't know how to command and fight. What we are best at is actually special operations. Chang Bald's planes, gasoline, it's too wasteful to burn them up and blow them up. As long as we can take action..."

At first, the chairman was still hesitant, but soon, the forward troops of the Red Army going out of Luliang, near Taiyuan, encountered the reconnaissance and strafing attacks of the Pao Party planes that took off from Zhangjiakou.Although the loss is slight, it has explained the problem.

From Lishi to Zhangjiakou, the straight-line flight distance is about [-] kilometers.It is still outside the attack radius of the Cannon Party Air Force for the time being, but Taiyuan is within its flight radius.And with the development of the war situation, Chang Kaishen will definitely move the field airport forward.

And at the beginning of April, Pan Hannian sent information that Chang Kaishen ordered his convoy to transport a large amount of aviation supplies in the direction of Baoding. The air force of the Democratic Party is basically all biplanes, which have very low requirements on the quality of the runway, and can take off and land on any leveled country road)

At this point in time, Wei Lihuang's army had already crossed the Yellow River to the north, and his troops arrived in Linfen first. Instead of going directly north to Taiyuan as Chairman Li Runshi expected, they marched northeastward, and they went to Qinyuan County during the march. The route of Qin, Qin, and Yudu counties is planned to meet with the westward Central Army in the Yudu area.

The reason why it is so clear is that the supply of Wei Lihuang's troops along the way is also in charge of the recruited Pan Hannian motorcade.

Because he was afraid of being "sieged and aided" by the Red Army, and this time he went to Shanxi to encircle and suppress the Central Red Army, Chang Tuzi basically used his confidant troops, and he was even more careful in this regard. Throughout late March and early April, he continued to dispatch A large number of aircraft carried out aerial reconnaissance in the Jinzhong area to prevent the Red Army from setting up ambushes along the marching route.

Fortunately, there are many mountains in Shanxi, and the mountains are vertical and horizontal, so it is easy to conceal, but it also caused a lot of trouble to the Red Army's ambush.Another reason is that Chang Kaishen believes that the place where the Red Army is most likely to ambush the Central Army is in the Xin County area north of Taiyuan.That's where the planes focus their reconnaissance these days.

During this period of time, the Red Army surrounding Taiyuan also deliberately moved frequently in Yuanping, Dingxiang, and Wutai areas, making the illusion that the main force was concentrated in the north of Taiyuan.

Relatively speaking, in the area of ​​Shangdang Changzhi in the southeast of Shanxi, the aerial reconnaissance is much weaker, but it is not completely absent.

Wei Lihuang is no better than other trash generals of the Democratic Party. He can be regarded as a good general. After he led the army into the Northeast during the Liberation War, even Lin Husan suffered a lot from him.The two generals under his command, whether it is Song Xilian or Leng Xin, are actually fierce generals who can fight tough battles.

The "position" of Wei Lihuang's troops entering Jin was very good. He crossed the Yellow River, entered Jin from the south of Shanxi, and then marched northeast to Zhong Jin, passing through the northwest of the Shangdang area.This marching route is relatively safe, and it is not easy to be ambushed by the Red Army.

According to Chang Kaishen's vision, as long as Wei Lihuang's two divisions successfully join forces with any of the four westward armies, his headquarters will be safe, and then the overall situation of the Shanxi Campaign will be settled-after all, this It is the five main central armies, and the Red Army can't move it.

In contrast, Tang Enbo's troops in the north had only one army and two miscellaneous friendly armies, and their strength was relatively weak. Instead, they had to be extremely careful when going south, and they were most likely to be attacked by the Red Army halfway.

But whether it was Chang Kaishen or Wei Lihuang, it never occurred to them that from the very beginning, Li Runshi's goal of the campaign was that the first to be wiped out was Wei Lihuang's department, which seemed to be in the safest position.

-------------------- Chapter 149 General Stinky Dung. General Locust. Wife Killing ------------------ --

Four Famous Generals: General Stinky Dung, General Locust, General Wife Killer, General Long Legs

In the last ten days of March 1936, after Chang Kaishen saw the Red Army aggressively attacking Shanxi, he was not really fighting a "sit-in" war.

The Fifth Army of Xue Yue's Department, located in the Hanzhong Basin, received Chang Kaishen's instructions: to go out of Hanzhong, take advantage of the main force of the Red Army in Shanxi, take Zhuge Liang's road out of Qishan, and surprise Tianshui.

After receiving this telegram, Xue Yue started cursing on the spot.

Starting from Yangping Guanxi, attacking Wudu, crossing Qishan Mountain, and reaching Tianshui, there are no supply points along the way, and the Red Army's mountain guerrillas are all along the way, surprise attack?What kind of surprise attack is this?Setting up an ambush anywhere can cut off his supplies, is this asking him to send his head away from thousands of miles away?

The Second and Sixth Army Corps that came out of Sichuan not long ago have now been organized into the Second Army and the Sixth Army. One is stationed in Lanzhou and Linxia, ​​and the other is being repaired in Tianshui.The other party was waiting for Xue Yue to come and die.

With the marching speed of his Fifth Army of [-] kilometers a day, he walked [-] miles of mountain roads to surprise...

(Note: During the War of Liberation, Xue Yue’s troops claimed to be the most capable of walking in the national army, with an average daily marching speed of [-] kilometers. The American adviser asked him to speed up, but Xue Yue refused because the supplies could not keep up. The [-] kilometers , refers to the speed of marching on a remote battlefield. During the encirclement and suppression of Ruijin, although the central army at that time had marched two hundred miles in two or three days, the Ruijin base area was not deep at that time, and the army could carry dry food and play offensively for a week. But playing this game in such a deep place in the Qinling Mountains is like committing suicide.)--

Regarding the bald man's disorderly life, Xue Yue's approach is similar to that of Zhang Xueliang at the beginning. He sent a large army west to Yangping Pass, and then walked around dozens of miles outside the pass to waste time before returning.

He was not afraid of Chang Kaishen's accusation, because he had already found a reason.

On January and February 1936, as the weather got colder, most of the Red Army guerrillas who went south retreated to the north to spend the winter and replaced them with new equipment.Three months later, the harassment guerrillas, armed with new weapons, headed south again.

This time, their weapons are more targeted: Mosin Nagant sniper rifles with added sights, larger caliber and more brutal anti-tank sniper rifles, and cannon (yellow) crossbows that can eject dung bombs.

The Qinling mountain road is difficult to travel. Originally, these new weapons were too late to be transported to the front line.However, in order to cooperate with the offensive after March and to ensure that the Qinling guerrillas on the front line could obtain the latest weapons in time, the Red Army used Soviet transport planes to airlift a batch of professional "guerrilla equipment" directly to Wudu, a city in the Qinling Mountains.

The villages, towns and anti-bandit fortresses in Hanzhong near the two passes of Yangping Pass and Baoxiedao began to be frequently attacked by guerrillas from the north during the few days when his army was dispatched.

The long Qinling Mountains are full of infiltration points suitable for small groups of troops.

Since the bankruptcy of the offensive fortress oppressive advance tactic, Xue Yue played the inside defense "cage" tactic.

He organized local militia groups and landlord forces, built fortresses and bunkers in every village on the edge of the valley area around Hanzhong, and implemented the tactics of "village autonomous joint defense" to suppress the penetration space of the combat team's activities.

Okamura Ningji has played this kind of trick, and Rui Jin Wufan has also played it at the time.The earthwork fortress at the rural level is very useful for bullying guerrillas who lack the ability to attack fortifications. …

However, when Ningji Okamura did this, he was advancing in an offensive manner, while Xue Yue's version was "defense by defense".

However, the emergence of flat-firing mortars and 12.7mm anti-tank guns that can kill people through walls easily broke his dream.

In the middle of the night on March 22, there were three village strongholds in the Hanzhong area, and at the same time they encountered a "key siege" by guerrillas emerging from the "mountainous area".Those well-built defense fortresses basically ended up flying one by one under the aimed strike of flat-fired mortars.

The attacking guerrillas were not large in scale, with no more than [-] people attacking each stronghold. After entering the strongholds, they attacked the local tyrants, killed the evil gentry, and kidnapped young people who voted one-for-one to join the army and vote for red. They also set up ambushes nearby Circle, and fight another wave of the white army security team who came to support, and then withdraw to the mountains after fishing enough.

This was the largest of the three guerrilla raids at the end of March.After World War Three, the Han Chinese Army lost hundreds of militia groups, lost guns and food, and a large number of surrounding young people voted for red, which strengthened the strength of the guerrillas.

But what disgusted Xue Yue even more was that damn, the continuous bludgeoning tactics, the disgusting "stinky bombs", all appeared again.

In the past, the Red Army only used old-fashioned rifles to fight coldly, with inaccurate marksmanship and low power.

But this time, what they used was a "professional product" equipped with a 2.2x sniper scope, not to mention the 12.7 anti-tank gun that would shatter corpses in one shot.

All of a sudden, alarms were raised all over Hanzhong, and Xue Yue also took the opportunity to call back the troops.

But it was useless to transfer back. The troops guarding Hanzhong also complained frequently at this time.

"Junzuo, you can't stay in this bloody place in Hanzhong! Those communist bandits in the Qinling Mountains used to smell like guns, but now they're poisoned by guns! The big guns they use now, if they hit their bodies, their whole bodies will be smashed to pieces! And those bullets can penetrate even brick walls and sandbags, and now the brothers on the front line are not even safe to hide behind sandbags and stand guard, everyone is afraid of death."

Afterwards, Xue Yue saw the dismembered bullets that were dug up: the 12.7mm bullets, which were imported at a glance.

Compared with this kind of vicious corpse-crushing bullet, the former "notorious" "golden dung bomb" is here again, and it has been "improved and upgraded".